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Martins Blog: Taper week is The longest week
The lead up to a marathon mirrors the race itself. Like our training, we start out our race nice and easy. We build into the distance before settling into a flow. We have peaks and troughs in training as well as the race, but we push through in both. And then there’s the frantic final […]
Episode 66 round up week ending 22/10/23
# 66 – Interview With Emmett Dunleavy of Perfect Pacing Listen here for our latest episode Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/…/runners-diary…/id1667173628 Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/episode/2losDzqPDBK07U3qMo35tE…RSS Feed to our Podcast Platform is https://anchor.fm/s/684b2734/podcast/ Thank you for your continued support you can follow us on FB, Instagram, Twitter, Join our Strava Club, follow us on Youtube and check out our website […]
Episode 65 round up Week ending 15th October
We will be bringing you a weekly recap of the results from last week going forward, we will have the top 3 from each race available but links to all results are attached so that you can get the full results. Our Featured fixtures are also available and we encourage everyone to try and support […]
Martin’s Blog: “Are we there yet” The Road to Dublin
Most people around the country have been watching the Irish Rugby team at the World Cup in France. As the squad and coaches try to reach the promised land of winning the world cup, their performances to date speak for themselves. I’ve been really interested in the language the team and coaches use during press […]
Martin’s Blog: Girls just want to have fun and Run
Is it just me or has the winter weather suddenly set in. For the first time in a long time, I debated putting on a woolly hat on a few runs this week. Due to being follicly challenged I don’t have the same warmth upstairs as others. However, I resisted and allowed the grey matter […]
Martin’s Blog: From the Big Apple to a PB in the Big Cheese
St Finbarr’s kick off the cross country season on 10th September 2023
On September 10th St. Finbarr’s AC will proudly host a new event on the Cork running calendar – an Open Cross Country Race. We at St. Finbarr’s AC really want to stress that ‘Open’ in this instance really does mean open – any runners aged 16 or over, of any ability, whether a seasoned cross-country […]
Mental health aspect of running, the journey of the marathon and great people you meet along the way.
From Tadhg O’Sullivan My running journey began just over three years ago in march 2020, when all team sports including GAA had stopped and all gym amenities had also came to a close. GAA and the gym for me at that time were a big part of my life, as they meant I could compete, […]